Find us on Facebook: Cast Iron Canada – https://www.facebook.com/groups/1408817499448631/ If you have a one or two pieces of cast iron that you want to clean, electrolysis and lye bath may be a little over...

Find us on Facebook: Cast Iron Canada – https://www.facebook.com/groups/1408817499448631/ Lisser was never found to be a foundry. The font on the skillet suggests it was likely made by Findlay’s Ltd, but we still haven’t...

Find us on Facebook: Cast Iron Canada – https://www.facebook.com/groups/1408817499448631/ We see these pop up once in a while with the question of “What the heck is it”? Many had the letters “D” and “C”...

Find us on Facebook: Cast Iron Canada – https://www.facebook.com/groups/1408817499448631/ When you see old lanterns marked SMP or GSW – and others, you will probably see a “Diamond D” on the glass globe. This wasn’t...

Find us on Facebook: Cast Iron Canada – https://www.facebook.com/groups/1408817499448631/ So where did the GSW crest come from? There wasn’t too much originality when it came to GSW. Sheet Metal Products (SMP). Not a cast...

Find us on Facebook: Cast Iron Canada – https://www.facebook.com/groups/1408817499448631/ The Drip top line of hollow ware was introduced in 1927 just before the merger with General Steel Wares. These particular skillet lids are pretty...

Find us on Facebook: Cast Iron Canada – https://www.facebook.com/groups/1408817499448631/ Bhouka Grill – for the record… Coral was a distributor out of Granby Quebec. It’s listed as a foundry on different lists, but it wasn’t....

Find us on Facebook: Cast Iron Canada – https://www.facebook.com/groups/1408817499448631/ “Made In Canada”, still seeing people trying to date Canadian iron using this 1960 rule – please don’t do it and please let people know...